A Single Bench of Justice Ravindra Ghuge gave this decision on January 2 on a petition filed by Anjali Guru. In this petition, the decision of the Returning Officer on 31 December 2020 was challenged. The returning officer had canceled the petitioner's form for Gram Panchayat Election in Jalgaon district.
The petitioner transgender said Bihar is the first to adopt a transgender identity but the sepoys are being denied the right to participate in the recruitment process.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday will hear a plea seeking a direction to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), to recognise and classify Transgenders as a separate third gender in their Annual Publication of Prison Statistics India.
The Karnataka government today submitted before the Karnataka High Court a proposal to include transgenders as one of the categories in “Other Backward Classes” (OBCs) for the purpose of recruitment.